Last Will And Testament

Jesus said to his disciples: “If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to Jesus, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” 

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. 

Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father. And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.” (John 14:7-14)

Jesus provides us with his “Last Will & Testament," with John 17 being a Codicil.   He leaves us with a charge: to do the works that he did and to make every effort to have those works be even greater than his.  He insists that by doing so, we do God’s will.

He leaves us a lot including a promise: ask anything of him in his name and he will do it.  That’s quite a promise, but there’s a catch.  We must know him. We must see him.  How to know and see?  Simple, although, not really. We must consistently do his works and that means, as a start, by loving our neighbors.  Some of us may ask: Is there a Plan B?

Deacon David Pierce